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Marina Cruz

Marina Cruz (Born 1982) is active/lives in Asia, Philippines.  Marina Cruz is known for Painting.

Marina Cruz's return to painting brings a new sequence to her investigation of remembrance and meaning.  The objects in them form a kind of portraiture: she for example composes the dress then arranges them as one would normally a sitter.  She transforms the thing (the actual dress) into an object (the painting of the dress), but retains the referencing and hinting to some fifty years past of back story. 

From treasured heirlooms that serve as Cruz's well of inspiration; a focus characteristic blooms and from there begins diffusing the mystique upon her now orphaned objects.  She dwells on the surviving artifact and leaves little trace of narrative in her portrayed "sitters," for she paints essence rather than likeness, to a point that one need not attach a face to the garment.  Crucial is her capability to inflict a transferred imagination upon each subject, concentrating on the depiction of a mood, of an absence or presence, rather than mere il   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2027 characters.]  Artist bio

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